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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street bolted higher yesterday after Standard & Poor's (S&P) affirmed its ratings for Ambac Financial Group Inc. and MBIA Inc., raising hopes that troubled bond insurers will emerge from the credit market crisis on a solid footin...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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The future of telecommunications in Bermuda is set to be discussed by the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) at its 18th annual executive council held at the Elbow Beach Hotel today.
The CTU will also be hosting its fifth Caribbean Ministerial ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index finished strongly higher yesterday, supported by gains in energy and resource shares, and further lifted by relief over the health of US bond insurers.
The energy sector, which accounts for ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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The Bermuda Government was named a 2007 Silver Winner for the prestigious Global Awards for Excellence in Business Process Management (BPM) & Workflow at a ceremony held in Nashville, Tennessee.
Implementing an enterprise-wide BPM programme in an env...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The United States economy is already in recession and is set for a further slowdown with the dollar expected to remain under pressure, investment guru Jim Rogers said on Monday.
Last week the US central bank sharply lowered its for...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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LOM Securities (Bahamas) Ltd. has relocated its operations from Freeport to a new office in downtown Nassau.
The investment specialist company, which has offices in Reid Street, Hamilton, has run offices in The Bahamas since 2001 and the new office, ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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The number of people signed up to registered pension plans in Bermuda almost doubled in 2006, according to the Pension Commission's annual report, tabled in the House of Assembly last Friday.
As of the end of 2006, 970 employers and 18,487 employees ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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Jonathan Kent
Bermuda's top law firms have given a lukewarm response to the news that some of the UK's leading legal teams could be set to start up in business on the Island.
This follows an article which appeared in online legal publication The Lawyer, which repo...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - The proportion of economists who forecast a US recession this year more than doubled in three months, to 45 percent, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
Of those, a majority expect t...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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Vital communication links during humanitarian emergencies are set to be improved thanks to a new network launched by a Bermuda-based company.
Intelsat Ltd., which provides commercial satellite services, and iDirect Inc., a company of VT Systems Inc.,...
DATE: Feb 26, 2008
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